Parabolus, Enghoff, Henrik, 2011

Enghoff, Henrik, 2011, East African giant millipedes of the tribe Pachybolini (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae), Zootaxa 2753, pp. 1-41 : 23

Parabolus new genus

Type species: Trigoniulus dimorphus Carl, 1909 .

Included species. Parabolus dimorphus ( Carl, 1909) , n. comb., Parabolus calceus n. sp. Etymology. Name formed in analogy with many other names in the order Spirobolida , masculine. Diagnosis. A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by

- coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7

- one pair of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward

- a very long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite

- a small laterobasal stout spine on terminal gonopod segment

- no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process, no free solenomerite, no distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod

- no distinct overlapping lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites

- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled

- an apical appendix on oral vulval valve